Iván Fischer – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:18 minutes | 934 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following his critically acclaimed interpretation of Bruckner’s 7th Symphony, Iván Fischer leads his Budapest Festival Orchestration to the summit of 19th century symphonic music, with this new recording of the monumental, enigmatic, unfinished and deeply religious 9th Symphony.
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:45 minutes | 274 MB | Genre: Classical
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Lahav Shani, 33, became Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2020–21 season as successor to the legendary Zubin Mehta. Also a hugely accomplished instrumentalist, he spent several years as a double bassist within the orchestra’s ranks and appeared as solo pianist with his fellow players aged just 18. He and the orchestra are now set to release a live recording of one of the great landmarks of twentieth-century Israeli music, the Paul Ben-Haim’s Symphony No. 1.
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Israel Castillo Hernández – Georg Philipp Telemann: 12 Fantaisies pour la basse de viole, TWV 40:26-37 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:20 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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Israel Castillo Hernández presents Telemann’s “12 Fantaisies pour la basse de viole”. The encounter of a Mexican with the viola da gamba and its unlikely journey trough music and social interaction is given full form on this recording!
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Isang Enders & WDR Sinfonieorchester – Ode to Henze (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:07 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Classical
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After the successful release of “Vox Humana”, Isang Enders turns his gaze towards the 20th century. Together with WDR Sinfonieorchester he has recorded various work by Hans Werner Henze and puts his work in the foreground on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death. The album includes “Ode an den Westwind”, “Englische Liebeslieder”, “Introduction, Theme and Variations” and “Trauer-Ode für Martina Geddes.” The cellist Isang Enders quickly distinguished himself as a musician with new concepts and a constant search for clues, which he repeatedly proves with his particularly broad repertoire. With his early publication of the cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, the FAZ describes his “overwhelming technical ability and precocious perception”, which led to an “interpretation that can compete with the best”.
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Isaiah Rizzo – Between Light & Shadows (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:49 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, Isaiah began his piano studies only at the age of 19, immediately arousing his interest in composing his pieces. In 2016, he began studying composition at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music (CBM). Four years later, he released his first album “Remain Silence”, presenting simple pieces of his own on the piano.
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Isabelle Durin, Michael Ertzscheid – Un Violon dans l’Histoire (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:52 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Classical
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If the 7th art contributes greatly to resurrecting all past memories, it is undoubtedly also thanks to the eloquence of the music carrying its image. In Un Violon dans l’Histoire, Isabelle Durin and Michaël Ertzscheid explore more than 70 years of cinema by exploring famous themes by Charlie Chaplin, Michel Legrand and John Williams.
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Isabel Bayrakdarian – Mark Abel: Spectrum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:30 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Acclaimed American composer Mark Abel’s sixth album for Delos extends his growing command of chamber writing while also delivering three major new vocal works. Celebrated sopranos Isabel Bayrakdarian (four times a Juno Award winner) and Hila Plitmann (a pair of Grammys and a longtime Abel collaborator) are joined by mezzo Kindra Scharich in presenting the song cycles Trois Femmes du Cinema and 1966, and debuting Two Scenes from “The Book of Esther,” a provocative excerpt from an opera in development. The album’s impressive array of instrumentalists includes pianist Carol Rosenberger (making the final recording of her epic career); fellow pianists Dominic Cheli, Sean Kennard and Jeffrey LaDeur; Alexander String Quartet violist David Samuel; Pacific Symphony concertmaster Dennis Kim and young cello star Jonah Kim.
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Isaac Makhdoomi – Domenico Maria Dreyer: Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:43 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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Isaac Makhdoomi, Swiss recorder player with an Indian background, presents here together with Sebastian Bausch at the harpsichord a veritable discovery with the sonatas of Domenico Maria Dreyer (ca. 1680 – ca.1740).
From the oevre of this little-known composer, only two recorder sonatas and six oboe sonatas composed around 1725 have survived the test of time, whereby the latter are excellently suited for adaptation on the alto or soprano recorder – a common Baroque practice that Makhdoomi has followed for his recording.
The sonatas are characterized by great musical grace and are stylistically close to the Venetian High Baroque.
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Iron & Wine – Lori (EP) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 14:28 minutes | 232 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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Recorded at the famed Sam Phillips Studios (Memphis, TN) with producer Matt Ross-Spang and help from Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, known collectively for their work in the indie-art-pop band Finom (formerly known as Ohmme), Iron & Wine preset LORI – their take on four of their favorite Lori McKenna tracks.
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Irmela Roelcke – Cloches et Carillons (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:31 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Next
The piano is perhaps better suited than any other instrument to evoke the sound of bells – evening bells, bells of farewell and of joy, funereal bells, bells with spiritual overtones – and late-Romantic and twentieth-century French and Russian composers in particular have responded to the challenge of capturing those sonorities at the keyboard.
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Irene De Ruvo – Stylus Phantansticus: The Hidden Writing (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:52 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Since its early beginnings, organ writing has been characterized by the imitative and contrapuntal style, conducting melodic lines whose rigor well knew how to grasp the distinctive element of the instrument, emission that prevents the perspective differentiation of the different sound planes. The flowering on the Italian territory within the musical chapels of a compositional style of the highest artistic level involved since the beginning the organ, the only musical instrument allowed in places dedicated to rites and religious functions. It was used both in accompaniment and in transcription for the instrument of motets and vocal masses, sometimes even as a substitute for singing, a custom that gave life to the practice of alternatim, alternation between instrument and voice, “Ch’or Si or no s’intenon le parole” (Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, IX If in the form of servitude to sacred singing the organ repertoire owes its debut, it soon emancipated from this through the flourishing of musical forms exclusively dedicated to Instrumental Performance – ricerca, Tiento, Toccata, Fantasia, intonation, Praeludium, Praeambulum – with a wealth of titles that sometimes translates equivalent forms of writing, some closer to the contrapuntal-imitative style, others to free invention, according to a style more similar to improvisation. It is to this second genre that the stluslus phantasticus refers, a musical gesture of great elasticity and executive freedom.
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Ines Schüttengruber – The Nannette Streicher Fortepiano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:45 minutes | 523 MB | Genre: Classical
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Nannette Streicher (1769-1833) was regarded throughout her life as a prominent piano maker, who was regarded in Vienna as the «third great Master» after Johann Schantz and Anton Walter already at the age of 27. Not averse to innovation, Nannette Streicher produced instruments at the highest technical level, while good relations with musicians such as Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven or Ignaz Schuppanzigh, but also with amateurs such as Karoline Fürstin von Lobkowitz or Georg Graf von Apponyi were helping to sell the grand pianos, with numbers produced rising up to 85 instruments per year. One of these instruments from 1813 was donated to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna by the Bösendorfer company, where it was restored from 2013 on and even made playable again. Ines Schüttengruber presents this fortepiano on this album with music from the time of its creation by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Franz Schubert, Ignaz Moscheles, Jan Václav Hugo Vorísek and Anna Maria (Nannette) Streicher.
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India Martínez – Nuestro Mundo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:43 minutes | 380 MB | Genre: Latin Pop, Female Vocal
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El nuevo álbum de India Martínez se llama Nuestro mundo y se trata de un proyecto en el que Melendi ha tenido una participación fundamental. Desde que ambos comenzaron a colaborar en el tema Si ella supiera, basado en uno de los poemas.
El noveno trabajo de India se configura así como un abanico estilístico, con bachata y reggaetón, pero también baladas (como la que da título al álbum) o puro pop (como Si ella supiera). El disco cuenta con las mezclas de Felipe Guevara y la masterización de Antonio Baglio. Así mismo Melendi no sólo ha contribuido a transformar los textos en canciones, sino que también participa como coproductor junto a India y Andy Clay.
Su preventa se abrirá con un regalo muy especial: una moderna tote bag personalizada con el diseño artístico del disco para los primeros 1.000 compradores.
Estrenada el 2 de septiembre como primer adelanto, Si ella supiera está siendo lo que se suponía que iba a ser. La colaboración ha roto récords en las listas de nuestro país, posicionada en el top 100 de Spotify y con un vídeo que ha sido tendencia de YouTube durante más de 20 días. En la actualidad acumula más de 5 millones de visualizaciones.
Nuestro mundo incluye otras joyas como A ti mujer, un poema que escribió pensando en la mujer y en los mandatos que a menudo condicionan al género. O Con Los 5 Sentíos, una bachata especialmente bailable que interpreta en colaboración con el colombiano Andy Rivera. También La Maleta, basada en su experiencia en Argentina, un país que adora. Y por supuesto Nuestro mundo, una canción profunda, melancólica y certera que no va a dejar a nadie indiferente.
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Inbal Segev – Inbal Segev: 20 for 2020 Volume IV (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:58 minutes | 556 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
The convergence of cataclysmic events of 2020 spurred cellist Inbal Segev to conceive an ambitious and inspirational commissioning project, “20 for 2020”, for which she asked 20 composers to document in music their responses to the challenges posed by the pandemic and social unrest. The result is an utterly moving and immensely varied palette of strong and distinctive compositional voices spanning a range of ages, genders and cultures.
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Inbal Segev – Inbal Segev: 20 for 2020 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:06:31 minutes | 2,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
The convergence of cataclysmic events of 2020 spurred cellist Inbal Segev to conceive an ambitious and inspirational commissioning project, 20 for 2020, for which she asked 20 composers to document in music their responses to the challenges posed by the pandemic and social unrest. The result is an utterly moving and immensely varied palette of strong and distinctive compositional voices spanning a range of ages, genders and cultures.
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